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BPC-157 and the peptide boom: what the human evidence actually shows
BPC-157 is the peptide people inject for tendon pain, gym injuries and gut problems, usually on the advice of a podcast, a forum or a telehealth…
Ultra-processed food and afternoon brain fog
There is a real association between eating a lot of ultra-processed food and worse cognitive and mental-health outcomes over years, in large observational cohorts. There is…
Is Dry Air the Reason Your Eyes Hurt at Work?
The mechanism is well described and measurable. The obvious fix is where the evidence gets awkward, and the work itself is part of the cause.
Could low iron explain why you are tired, even without anaemia?
“Get your ferritin checked” has become standard advice for anyone who is tired all the time, and unlike a lot of fatigue advice it has randomised…
“Exercise snacks”: do one-minute movement breaks actually help?
Exercise snacks, meaning brief bursts of vigorous activity spread through a sedentary day, are one of the better-supported health trends of the last few years. The…
How Much Does One Bad Night’s Sleep Actually Cost You?
The effects of sleep loss are not uniform, and the pattern of what suffers most is more useful than knowing that something does.
Emotional reliance on AI: what happens when your chatbot changes or goes offline
Emotional reliance on AI chatbots is real, measurable in ordinary users, and rises with how much people use them. Whether it harms wellbeing is a different…
Does Media Multitasking Actually Wreck Your Attention?
A famous finding, two direct replications, three meta-analyses, and a small surviving effect that nobody can show is causal.
AI meeting assistants: what always-on transcription does to how meetings work
AI meeting assistants now join calls, transcribe everything and email a summary before anyone has left the room. Two things are well evidenced: automatic speech recognition…
Does Writing With AI Flatten Your Voice? The Homogenisation Evidence
An experiment where the individual result and the collective result point in opposite directions, and the authors name the structure that produces it.
What Is Workslop? The AI Output That Moves the Work to Whoever Receives It
You open the document. It is well formatted, the headings are confident, the summary reads smoothly, and somewhere around the second paragraph you realise it does…
Does Office Lighting Actually Affect How Alert You Are?
A daylight study with striking results, two brightness studies that found almost nothing, and a distinction between them that explains the field.
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